Literacy is an emerging skill that begins at birth, and here the authors highlight that infants and toddlers are on the road to literacy when they scribble with crayons or play with books.
From this premise the book works its way through various strategies that practitioners can use to enhance this development. This begins with the building blocks to emergent literacy, moving on to activities such as turning book reading into a conversation and concluding with phonological awareness, which involves breaking language down into words, beats and syllables.
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